[Portrait of Alexander Pope] [graphic]

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Title: [Portrait of Alexander Pope] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Amicitiae causa
Creator: Richardson, Jonathan, 1694-1771, printmaker
Published / Created: [between 1730 and 1740]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait head of Alexander Pope in profile to right; in a circle
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1850,0810.37.
Mounted on page 74 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance: Spencer, ex dono Annie Burr Lewis; June 1933. Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Extent: 1 print : circular image 10 cm, on plate 10.1 x 10 cm, on sheet 11.1 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1730
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744,
Subjects: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
England > London > 1730
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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